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Cryptocurrency is now, by default, the only form of payment Pornhub accepts, while new KYC rules raise difficult questions about privacy and data protection.
2020-12-16 22:19 | |
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While it seems Paxos Standard (PAX) experienced a sudden surge in trading volumes, the stablecoin’s own issuer questions that very data.
2020-3-4 23:04 | |
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The evolving state of technology around the world has led many regulators to take note, pushing for rules that better govern the need for financial stability, data privacy, and competition. The Libra stablecoin by Facebook has raised a lot of technical questions since its announcement.
2019-12-9 16:50 | |
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Not only is your Google Home device listening to you, a new report suggests there might be a Google contractor who’s listening as well. Even if you didn’t ask your device any questions, it’s still sending what you say to the company, who allow an actual person to collect data from it.
2019-7-11 18:54 | |
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I have had the opportunity to work with numerous businesses on their analytics strategy. One of the most common questions I receive is “what are the right success metrics to measure?” If you build or market products, you’ve likely asked yourself this question as well.
2019-7-8 13:55 | |
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The Dow surged at Monday’s opening bell, only to slide more than 250 points intraday to erase virtually all of the 290 point rally. The stock market retrace followed the release of dismal manufacturing data, which raised questions about the health of the U.
2019-7-2 22:11 | |
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The Data Foundation and Booz Allen Hamilton have come up with five key questions federal entities should ask when considering blockchain solutions
2019-6-11 03:13 | |
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By CCN: The future’s so bright for crypto that investors need to wear shades. Travis Kling, CIO of crypto investment firm Ikigai Asset Management, is more bullish on bitcoin than ever. From any vantage point, bitcoin has turned a corner.
2019-5-16 21:30 | |
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By CCN: If we were given a dollar every time a tech behemoth “inadvertently” shared our data, we’d be as rich as their CEOs. Twitter is the latest to fess up about an oopsie, drawing more attention and questions about this disturbing trend among tech giants.
2019-5-15 00:08 | |
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Facebook was under a lot of heat when the Cambridge Analytica scandal exploded. As we may have all heard, the scandal involved a personality-quiz app created by a representative from Cambridge, where Facebook users downloaded and answered the questions.
2019-5-13 22:40 | |
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I read Rami Sass’ recent piece here on Podium about how cyber insurance is overhyped. While he raised great questions about the current pricing models and fear-driven tactics used to sell coverage, I wanted to share a different perspective and address his concerns.
2019-5-9 08:30 | |
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By CCN: Lyft’s first earnings report was downright ugly, and not just because the company lost $1 billion in a single quarter. Investors expected a less-than-stellar balance sheet, but it was the backhanded slap in the face a company executive delivered to investors that leaves questions about the rideshare darling’s transparency.
2019-5-9 01:10 | |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on May 1, 2019, demanded answers from telecommunication companies in regards to their involvement in selling customers’ phone location information to data aggregators, Motherboard reported.
2019-5-3 01:00 | |
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A Medium post published by Spencer Bogart, a general partner at Blockchain Capital, compares data collected from a set of surveys from October 2017 and April 2019 containing identical questions (plus a few new ones).
2019-5-1 18:55 | |
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On April 24, 2019, Japanese crypto and blockchain company bitFlyer released the results of a study assessing public confidence in crypto assets of 10,000 people across 10 European nations.
2019-4-25 21:25 | |
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Big tech is broken. From Uber’s sexual harassment scandal to Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony and Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown, tech disillusionment is definitely starting to set in for many people.
2019-4-17 14:07 | |
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New Prediction Service Backed By Charles Hoskinson Has Been Recently Launched Endor, a predictive analytics company has recently launched a blockchain system that allows businesses to ask and answer questions based on big data.
2019-4-4 20:51 | |
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Today's Ethereum News There is nothing wrong about being curious and hard but relevant questions. That is why the community is always sieving through blockchain data, trying to piece together information to demystify who Satoshi is.
2019-3-22 16:12 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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The Coinbase reputation crisis continues, this time with questions related to how the company plans to use customer data.
2019-3-6 06:15 | |
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The Coinbase reputation crisis continues, this time with questions related to how the company plans to use customer data.
2019-3-7 06:15 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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Facebook is creating its own virtual coin but some believe this is going to be more of a way to collect more users’ personal data for goals that are not clear
2019-3-27 20:49 | |
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On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.
2019-2-7 01:01 | |
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A human error led to the leak of millions of customers’ data at an Indian public sector bank, raising questions on the merit of Bitcoin over banks. State Bank of India, a government-owned corporation, forgot to secure essential server information that held customers’ messages, bank balances, transaction details, and other related details.
2019-1-31 18:31 | |
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A frequently asked question about bitcoin is whether the stock market influences its price, or whether the cryptocurrency acts as a ‘safehaven’ during stock market downturns. The latest analysis by CryptoSlate sheds some light on these questions.
2019-1-7 05:45 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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In the days after Facebook‘s September announcement about a bug that may have compromised 90 million users – yes, that was three months and several earth-shattering Facebook headlines ago – someone asked me what consumers could have done to avoid being caught up in yet another data breach.
2018-12-28 22:00 | |
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Amazon claims that any data stored on the platforms will remain the sole property of the person who put it there.
2018-12-17 00:06 | |
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General data protection regulation (GDPR) and blockchain is one of the industry’s most contentious debates at the moment. Some believe that public permissionless blockchains cannot be GDPR compliant, and that private blockchains might be the answer to blockchain’s regulatory woes.
2018-12-14 14:59 | |
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Interest in Bitcoin around the world isn’t waning, according to the latest data from Google Trends, as many people are interested in finding out ‘What is Bitcoin’ with BTC price down over 80% from its all-time high.
2018-12-13 16:00 | |
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Google‘s chief executive Sundar Pichai today appeared on Capitol Hill to answer questions about a number of issues. Most pressing were issues with the collection of data, plans for a heavily censored Chinese search engine, and how to best combat misinformation, including what role, if any, Google should play in stopping it.
2018-12-12 05:38 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Quora announced today that its Q&A platform was breached by hackers on November 30, and that approximately 100 million users’ data was compromised. The attackers are believed to have accessed the following information: Account information, e.
2018-12-4 07:49 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Is cryptocurrency becoming more mainstream? It could be if one of America’s most prominent game shows features an entire category devoted to it. The November 29, 2018, episode of “Jeopardy!” — which has been on the air since 1964 — offered five unique questions centered around cryptocurrencies and their technology to test out its contestants’ knowledge on the subject: The results reveal that they did indeed know their fair share.
2018-12-1 22:18 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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The Bitfury Group has acquired a minority stake in blockchain services firm Final Frontier. Both organizations are looking to utilize each other’s knowledge and experience in the traditional and digital finance spaces to potentially release a new line of financial products and services designed to assist professional investors in getting their hands on digital assets.
2018-11-14 00:53 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.
2018-11-10 01:35 | |
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This time last year ICOs were massive news, raising funds totaling over $6 billion throughout the whole of 2017. Despite the downturn across the crypto market, ICOs have continued to grow. But ‘by how much?’ is not so straightforward to answer.
2018-11-6 08:00 | |
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On October 24, 2018, an advisory committee to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a report calling for clarity on the IRS’s position toward cryptocurrency taxation.
2018-10-27 20:34 | |
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The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) has released a new report suggesting that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recommend to the European Commission that it regulate the cryptocurrency space with existing legislation rather than instilling new rules and laws.
2018-10-23 00:41 | |
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Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.
2018-10-16 22:06 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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Google’s childish approach to business ethics has landed it in hot water with Congress yet again. After discovering a software glitch earlier this year – persisting since 2015 — the company chose to hide it from consumers and regulators.
2018-10-11 22:27 | |
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The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.
2018-10-11 00:18 | |
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A crypto holder lost $282M in Bitcoin and Litecoin to the social engineering scam, exposing hardware wallet vulnerabilities despite advanced security.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited Anthropic Claude Code AI in the world’s first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, proving that machine agents can now run sprawling digital attacks with only minimal human input.
"Once you get hacked in most of the cases you're done," CEO Dadosh said. "And this is what we're trying to prevent."
PolySwarm (NCT) has registered an over 90% price increase in the past 24 hours, as major crypto assets experience minor dips across the board. PolySwarn is a blockchain project focused on strengthening cybersecurity in the Web3 space. The current PolySwarm(NCT)…